September 2009 Archives

Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

• Dictionary of Policing, Willan Publishing
• Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment, Willan Publishing
• Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management, Willan Publishing
• Dictionary of Youth Justice, Willan Publishing
• Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe
• A Glossary of Political Theory, Edinburgh University Press
• A Glossary of UK Government and Politics, Edinburgh University Press
• Key Concepts in Journalism Studies, Sage
• Key Concepts in Political Communication, Sage
• Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
• Political Philosophy A-Z, Edinburgh University Press
• World Politics Since 1945, Pearson

A trial of McGraw Hill’s AccessEngineering is active until the end of October.  Feedback is appreciated.

Temple Libraries is proud to present "To Google or Not to Google", an informative session that discusses the pros and cons of using the world's largest search engine.

Google provides fast but often ineffective results. Will you really impress your professor by citing a Wikipedia article as a source for a research paper? In this session a Temple University Librarian will discuss the pros and cons of using Google for academic research. Discover how to just as quickly access more appropriate sources without over relying on Google. This session will cover a new open source Wiki alternative, as well as some of the more traditional reference tools that have been digitized for easy web access.

Location: TECH Center 205-A

Time: 1-2 PM

Dates: 10/1, 10/7

For more information and to register...

Temple University Libraries' subject specialists create guides to library resources for general subjects as well as for specific courses and assignments. Faculty should contact Subject Specialists to get more information on these. Here are the Subject Guides that are currently available.

Blackboard is a great place to make these guides available to students. View the Screencast below to see how easy it is to embed a library guide into your Blackboard course.

For more information, see Integrating the Library Into Blackboard.

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Africa Spectrum
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=africaspec
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1966) – Vol. 40, No. 3 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Institute of African Affairs at GIGA, Hamburg/Germany
ISSN: 0002-0397

Change
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=change
Release Content:
Vol. 2, No. 4 (July/August, 1970) – Vol. 35, No. 6 (November/December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Heldref Publications
ISSN: 0009-1383
Note: The content for Vol. 1, No. 1 (1969) - Vol. 2, No. 3 (1970) of Change in Higher Education, the previous title to Change, is currently in production and will be released into the JSTOR archive in the near future.

English Education [1969- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=englishedu
Previous Title: Selected Addresses Delivered at the Conference on English Education [1963-1968] (0573-3561)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=seladdelconenged
Release Content:
Nos. 1 – 6, Part 2 (1963-1968);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1969) – Vol. 38, No. 1 (October, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
ISSN: 0007-8204

Journal of Logic, Language, and Information
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jlogiclanginfo
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1992) – Vol. 14, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0925-8531

Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=mittkunsinstflor
Release Content:
Bd. 1, H. 1 (Autumn, 1908) – Bd. 50, H. 3 (2006)
Moving Wall: Zero
Publisher: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
ISSN: 0342-1201
Note: Content for this title is released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Research in the Teaching of English
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=resintheteacheng
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1967) – Vol. 40, No. 2 (November, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
ISSN: 0034-527X

Revista de Letras
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revistaletras
Release Content:
Vol. 2 (1961) - Vol. 47, No. 2 (July/December, 2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho
ISSN: 0101-3505
Note: The content for Vol. 1 (1960) will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.

Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=zeitphilfors
Release Content:
Bd. 1, H. 1 (1946) – Bd. 57, H. 4 (October/December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Vittorio Klostermann GmbH
ISSN: 0044-3301

We have a trial to Access NewspaperARCHIVE thru 9/25/09.  Please give it a try and let us know what you think.

Temple University Libraries is proud to off an informative session titled "Stuff You didn't Know You Could Do With Google".

How do you use Google? If you’re not going beyond the introductory Search Page, then you’re not experiencing the full potential of Google. Google is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe wanna-a-be; learn how to use it to search Temple’s databases, to search for government information from any locality in the world, to find PowerPoint presentations on any topic, to find full-text books, and much more.

Location: TECH Center 205-A

Time: 1-2 PM

Dates: 9/24, 9/30, 10/29, 11/4

For more information and to register...

Full-text of the following 10 titles were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online.

• Année sociologique (1896-1925, 1948-1952, 1955-2000)
• Australasian Drama Studies (1982-2000)
• Cahiers internationaux de sociologie (1946-1991, 1993-2000)
• Canadian Slavonic Papers (1956-1961, 1966-2000)
• Dickens Quarterly (1984-2000)
• Economic and Social Review (1969-2000)
• Etudes philosophiques (1926-1942, 1946-1947, 1949-1956, 1958-1961, 1963-2000)
• Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (1977-2000)
• Psychiatrie de l'enfant (1958-1964, 1966-2000)
• Revue de métaphysique et de morale (1894-1904, 1906-1911, 1913-2000)

The following 77 titles were recently added to Periodicals Index Online:

• Agenda (Durban)
• American Statistician
• Anglistica
• Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Proceedings
• Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Centro de Estudios Pedro Suárez, Boletín
• Collectanea Hibernica
• Cuadernos de filología francesa
• Daat
• Dutch Crossing
• Déviance et société
• Ecquid Novi
• English Review (1990)
• Enlightenment and Dissent
• European Business Review
• European Journal of Development Research
• Exceptional Children
• Faulkner Journal
• Fogg Art Museum, Bulletin
• Goodwin Series
• Great Republic Monthly
• Haydn Society Journal
• History Review
• Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
• Institut dominicain d'études orientales du Caire, Melanges
• International Lawyer
• Irish Studies in International Affairs
• Japan Forum
• Journal of Architectural and Planning Research
• Journal of Existentialism
• Journal of Family Social Work
• Journal of Library Administration
• Journal of New Zealand Literature
• Journal of Rural Education
• Journal of Social Service Research
• Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Journal of the History of Biology
• Kleio (South Africa)
• Lacanian Ink
• Landscape Journal
• Language and Literature
• Life of the Spirit
• Long Range Planning
• Louisiana History
• Madrider Mitteilungen
• Magazine of American Genealogy
• Manoa
• Matériaux arabes et sudarabiques
• Michigan Journal of International Law
• Modern History Review
• Museum International
• NWSA Journal: a Publication of the National Women's Studies Association
• New Haven Colony Historical Society, Papers
• OTAM
• Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications
• Oregon Law Review
• Paideia
• Paradigms
• Philosophical Journal
• Progressive Education
• Restoration and Management Notes
• Rhetoric Society Quarterly
• Screen
• Seminar for Arabian Studies, Proceedings
• Semitica
• Service Industries Journal
• Sibirica
• Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East
• South Dakota Historical Review
• Southwestern Journal
• Third Text
• Vernacular Architecture
• Walker's Quarterly
• Walpole Society, Volume
• Washington Law Review
• Women's Review of Books
• World Bank Research Observer

We have the following two resources on trial thru 11/3/09:

Global Issues in Context

offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues.
Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context is a truly non-U.S. centric resource that ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues — providing information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations

[more info] [feedback form]

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more

[more info] [feedback form]

This hands-one workshop will introduce you to online image collection databases. These databases provide high-resolution images and content that would not otherwise be freely searchable via search engines such as Google. You will learn how to find images related to art, design, architecture, archaeology, culture and politics, as well as historic images of Philadelphia. Focus will be on ARTstor and AP Images (Associated Press Images). All are welcome.

Location: TECH Center 205-A

Time: 1-2 PM

Dates: 9/23 , 10/21

For more information and to register...

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Buddhist art from Lantian, China
ARTstor is collaborating with Northwestern University Academic and Research Technologies to share 20 images, including 7 Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas, documenting Buddhist sculpture at Shuilu'an Temple in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, China.

New collection agreement: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ARTstor is collaborating with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to share approximately 1,000 images of modern and contemporary art from its permanent collection in the Digital Library.

New collection agreement: Barbara Anello: Photographs of Southeast Asia and Morocco
ARTstor is collaborating with Barbara Anello to share approximately 750 images of the architecture, arts, and culture of Southeast Asia and Morocco in the Digital Library.

New collection agreement: Emilio Sanchez Foundation
ARTstor is collaborating with the Emilio Sanchez Foundation to share 79 images of works by the Cuban-born American artist Emilio Sanchez in the Digital Library.

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Images from Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has contributed images of early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton to the ARTstor Digital Library.

Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) collection now available in ARTstor
ARTstor has collaborated with the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to make available 458 images of modern European and American architecture in the Digital Library.

The following content was recently added to America's Historical Newspapers:

Temple Libraries is pleased to announce a new service that greatly simplifies requests for library materials from other campus libraries and the Library Depository. When you search the Diamond catalog and you find a book or an article in a bound volume that is at the Ambler Library and you're at Main Campus, for example, all you have to do is click on the request button at the top of the catalog record, login using your access net account, indicate where you want to pick the material up, and hit the submit button. It's that easy. We've eliminated those cumbersome forms. Also, for articles in bound volumes, you will receive those electronically through your Temple email account. No need to come to the library to pick those up.

This service is available for all material that is currently requestable - that is bound journals from the Depository, journal articles in bound volumes, and circulating books. Books that don't circulate such as reference books or books that are checked out or missing, may not be requested. This service covers material in the following libraries: Paley and Media Services; SEAL; Ambler; Harrisburg; and Health Sciences Libraries. If you want to request material from Paley, Media Services or SEAL your pickup location must be Ambler, Harrisburg, or the Health Sciences Libraries.

The screenshot below illustrates how Diamond now looks for books and journals that can be requested:

If you search for journals in our Journal Finder, you can now access RSS feeds to get notifications of new issues' table of contents.

What is RSS? We've created a subject guide on that very subject called "Current Awareness with RSS Feeds". It includes information about what RSS feeds are and how you can use them for different purposes. If you haven't used RSS feeds before I'd suggest watching the brief video embedded on the first page of that guide.

If have you used RSS feeds before, Journal Finder can help you find RSS feeds for the tables of contents of hundreds of academic journals from a wide range of publishers such as: Sage, Wiley, Blackwells, Elsevier, Oxford, Nature, American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and many more.

When you search in Journal Finder, if a journal in your results has an associated RSS feed, you will see the standard RSS icon, which looks like this:

Clicking on the RSS icon will take you to the url for the RSS feed.

Next to the RSS icons are small information icons which will take you to the aforementioned subject guide on RSS.

If you have any questions feel free to ask your subject librarian.

-Derik A Badman
Digital Services Librarian

On the afternoon of Friday, August 28th it was not business as usual at Paley Library. As it has for the past two Welcome Week Fridays, the Library was the scene of a party for our new students. With a DJ spinning the tunes, the students gathered for food, games, raffles, and other entertainment. ceLIBration is designed as a fun, non-library way to learn about the library. Several hundred students, some with their parents, visited Paley Library, and many explored all that the Library has to offer.

This year students were invited to participate in several arcade game tournaments that featured popular games such as air hockey, foosball, basketball toss and skeeball. The Library also offered a variety of board games for students who wanted to have fun with their friends. Jimmy Johns generously brought over lots of samples of their sandwiches. So while it was uncharacteristically noisy in the Library, it was for a good cause - and a good time was had by all.

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society [1966- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=dantestudies
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society, with Accompanying Papers [1955-1965] (1948-1608)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantsocwap
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society [1882-1954] (1948-1594)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantesoc
Release Content:
Nos. 1-68/72 (1882-1954);
Nos. 73-83 (1955-1965);
Nos. 84-123 (1966-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Dante Society of America
ISSN: 0070-2862

Journal of the Southwest [1987- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jsouthwest
Previous Title: Arizona and the West [1959-1986] (0004-1408)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=arizwest
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1959) – Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1986);
Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1987) – Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Journal of the Southwest
ISSN: 0894-8410

Ornithological Monographs
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ornithmono
Release Content:
Nos. 1-57 (1964-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of California Press for the American Ornithologists’ Union
ISSN: 0078-6594

Religion & Literature [1984- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=reliandliter
Previous Title: Notre Dame English Journal [1965-1983] (0029-4500)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=notedameengj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1965/1966) – Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1983);
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1984) – Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Notre Dame
ISSN: 0888-3769

For many years we have listed tens of thousands of United States government documents in our online catalog of holdings together with URLs to their online equivalents hosted by agencies of the federal government. These URLs have been provided to libraries nationwide by the GPO (Government Printing Office).

On August 24th the GPO server providing these URLs suffered a catastrophic failure. GPO attempts to restore service have thus far been ineffective. As of Tuesday 9/1 only 6,000 out of 116,000 URLs had been restored. On Wednesday 9/2 the GPO server went completely offline.

This is a nationwide problem. Users of the Temple University online catalog who seek to access online U.S. government publications they find through the catalog should look at the full catalog record and use the second alternate URL if one is provided in the catalog record. The purl.access.gpo.gov link will not work until further notice.

We will continue to monitor the situation and will announce restoration of PURL services by GPO.

The following 14 new journals went live in Project Muse between May – August 2009:

American Music
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Archives of Asian Art
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press

Black Women, Gender & Families
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

The Byron Journal
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Conservative Judaism
Publisher: Rabbinical Assembly

Genocide Studies and Prevention
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Publisher: Harvard-Yenching Institute

Journal of Education Finance
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Revista Hispánica Moderna
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Romani Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Studies in American Jewish Literature
Publisher: Purdue University Press

Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Publisher: The New Chaucer Society

U.S. Catholic Historian
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

Western American Literature
Publisher: Western Literature Association

Classical Scores Library has added 918 new works totaling 47,488 pages. New scores from Faber and contemporary music publisher Universal Edition include works by Joseph Achron, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Anne Boyd, Anton Bruckner, Frederick Delius, Morton Feldman, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Frank Martin, Claudio Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt, Max Reger, Wolfgang Rihm, Steve Reich, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and more. The collection now includes a total of 13,558 scores totaling 277,028 pages.

Contemporary World Music has added 304 albums, bringing the total to 1,750 albums (23,235 tracks). New content includes albums licensed from Appleseed Recordings, Black Sun Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna Records, Piranha Records, and World Music Network. New music includes afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, jazz fusion, new age, ska, and more.

Jazz Music Library has added 583 albums (7,577 tracks), bringing the total to 2.549 CDs and 26,599 tracks. New works have been licensed from Audiophile, Concord Records, Contemporary Records, Jazzology Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige Records. New material includes recordings from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Karrin Allyson, Benny Carter, Eric Dolphy, Etta Jones, Louie Bellson, Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Zoot Sims, and more.

Dance in Video has added 39 new titles, bringing the total to 189 videos. New titles added to the collection include videos from the Alive and Kicking Series; performances by the Cullberg Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, Li Chiao-Ping, the American Dance Festival Repertory Company, the National Ballet of Canada, Kaeja d’Dance Company, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, the Dutch National Ballet, and the American Dance Festival Repertory Company; interviews with Trisha Brown, Wu Jing Shu, Honi Coles, Ethel Butler, Molissa Fenley, and members of the Exit Dance Theatre; and documentaries on ballroom dancing, the dance art of Thailand, the Royal Academy of Dancing, and the restaging of “State of Darkness” with Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal.

Opera in Video had added 45 new operas, bringing the total to 108 titles. New titles from Opus Arte and the Bel Canto Society include operas from composers Albeniz (Merlin, 2003 Madrid); Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti, 2001, London); Bizet (Carmen, 2007 Covent Garden), 1946 and 1954 films of Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore; 1955 film of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier with Mario Del Monaco; Gounod (Romeo et Juliette, 1994 Covent Garden); Monteverdi (L’Orfeo, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda); Mussorgsky (Khovanshchina, 2007 Liceu); Rameau (Les Boréades, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux); Wagner (Das Rheingold, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung).

African American Music Reference has added 11 new sources.  New titles include:

• Jazz from the Beginning, by Garvin Bushell and Mark Tucker (Da Capo Press, 1998).
• Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn (Columbia University Press, 2005).
• Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography, by Stuart Nicholson (Routledge, 2004).
• Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement, by S. Craig Watkins (Beacon Press, 2005).
• Two books by Douglas Henry Daniels: One O’Clock Jump: The Unforgettable Story of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Beacon Press, 2005) and Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young (Beacon Press, 2002).
• The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, by Gerald Majer (Columbia University Press, 2005).
• The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, by Shane White and Graham White (Beacon Press, 2005).
• Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, by Gayle F. Wald (Beacon Press, 2007).
• Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, by Suzanne E. Smith (Harvard University Press, 1999).
• A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and the American Popular Song, by Jeffrey Melnick (Harvard University Press, 1999).

The Libraries’ have trial access to approximately 19,000 English language ebooks from Springer, spanning many disciplines.  The trial runs until the end of October.